I just finish watching Total Recall, the new one. It's was not good. I thought it would be better than the original version but after watching it I still feel the Arnold Schwarzenegger version is much better.

I will be honest, Total Recall was not great. Neither was Arnold Schwarzengger version.
Movies like these attract lots of attention with their trailers and etc. but they fail to impress you when you are trapped in the theater watching the movie.

RE: Total Recall (the Arnold version). Is it just me or does Michael Ironside tend to lose limbs a lot in his movies? He lost both arms in Total Recall, one arm in The Machinist and either his arms or his legs (I forget which) in Starship Troopers.

Is it just me or does Michael Ironside tend to lose limbs a lot in his movies?

That is an interesting trivia. He did lost his arm in The Machinist. I forgot about Total Recall whether he lost his arms and I'm not too sure or if I could remember whether he lost his arm or leg in Starship Troopers.

In the middle of TR (new). It's OK, but the three-titted woman and the head-disguise device is just a straight take from the 1st movie. You don't want to compare the two and to be fair the locations are different, but just copying from the 1st is p'ing me off a bit.

OMG - just realised, the 1st was 1990 - 22 years ago! Sharon Stone was so fit too.

Whatcha reckon Kate Beckinsale vs. Sharon Stone (when both in their prime). Which one would you'd rather was trying to kill you? :)

In the middle of TR (new). It's OK, but the three-titted woman and the head-disguise device is just a straight take from the 1st movie. You don't want to compare the two and to be fair the locations are different, but just copying from the 1st is p'ing me off a bit.

I agree. It is a different location. If I remember the 3 breast lady in the old movie look more natural than the current. But the current girl looks prettier.

OMG - just realised, the 1st was 1990 - 22 years ago! Sharon Stone was so fit too.

Yes, it is that long! Sharon Stone does look in the movie but got kill off so early in the movie.

Whatcha reckon Kate Beckinsale vs. Sharon Stone (when both in their prime). Which one would you'd rather was trying to kill you? :)

I might have to say Kate Beckinsale because she more fit than Sharon Stone plus Kate Beckinsale is around my age a few years older me. Sharon Stone is really like a sex symbol in the 90's.

I'm a straight A student and I finish most of my homework during class, break/lunch, or tutorial periods... So I don't really have much homework after school other than studying, learning programming (don't laugh), athletics, and a few other extra curricular subjects :).

By the way, it my comment was on topic because it was refering to the comment right above mine :)

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You should watch this movie called:

Dead Poets Society

I remember seeing that movie some years back, not bad, I thought it was touching but also very cliché. The performance of the actors were very good, but that's about all that is memorable about it, IMHO. And I'm not a big fan of movies that are just vessels for actor performances. I've been blessed with a few very inspiring teachers in my years in school, including an English literature teacher, so the cheap, dramatized, hollywood version of it wasn't very memorable to me.

I find that Scent of a Woman was a much better movie, and did a far better job at conveying its messages, and with impeccable acting too.

Writing essays was fun. I particularly enjoyed taking the reader on for a wild ride, making sure my essays wouldn't be just another essay in the pile the prof had to grade (or the pile of cover letters for some job / scholarship application). It has worked wonders for me. I always had between 95 and 100 percent on all my essay regardless of my bad spelling / grammar or if I even read the book the essay was on. The real secret to a good essay is to think about the reader and making his/her experience the best possible when reading it.

Why did you pick this movie?

I don't know for sure, but knowing what the movie is about, there's a pretty good hint. The movie is about a bunch of blasé prep-school seniors who get inspired by this "passionate" teacher that teaches them about poetry and about some (hollywood-cliché) life-lessons, it's a classic passing-of-age movie. At the end, everyone is happy and changed for life, and tears flow on your cheeks as you watch the movie. Maybe LastMitch figures you're just the right age to be inspired by this movie, and I guess he could be right, but it's not like he would know anything about what you like, what you can understand or what "lessons" you need to learn about, just by knowing your age. And also, it's not like you need to fully understand all the "lessons" or themes of a movie/book to get something valuable out of it. I think that "thought provocation" is a lot better than "spoon-feeding life-lessons", and I can't say what provocation anyone needs, I just know they need provocation, all the time, whatever works.